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Coaching Team

TennisLIFE provide the coaching at Sheen LT&SC, and have a team of coaches led by Paul Boffa. Paul designs the program, and leads and trains the coaches to deliver high quality coaching to all players.

All coaches are LTA qualified and accredited, and hold first aid, DBS and safeguarding certificates.

All coaches are available for private lessons and can be booked through the booking system.

Paul Boffa

TennisLIFE Director & Head Coach

Paul holds the highest qualification level in British tennis with his Level 5 Master Club Coach qualification.
Paul is also an LTA tutor, training coaches through their qualifications. As well as this, Paul is an LTA qualified referee and has various certificates from the International Tennis Federation. Through his coaching career, Paul has worked with all levels of players including beginners, club team players, County champions and Junior international players.
You can contact Paul directly on 07738096794 or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Tony Santos

Program Coach

Tony holds the LTA level 3 Club Coach award.
Tony coaches on groups within the junior and adult program, and has been working at Sheen LT&SC since 2017.
Tony is available for private lessons at the club, and will always ensure you get a high intensity lesson and hit a huge amount of balls.
You can contact Tony directly on 07951 490338 or email on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Laura Morley-Burns

Program Coach

Laura holds the LTA level 4 coaching qualification, has worked in the tennis industry for over 25 years and has a wealth of experience in coaching all levels of player.
Tutored by Judy Murray in Scotland, she worked closely with young performance players then became a head coach at clubs in Edinburgh before coming to London.

In the early 2000s where she coached at The Roehampton Club and subsequently has worked at the LTA, Wimbledon and local tennis clubs.
Her coaching style is based on fun/social games with strong emphasis on learning how to play tactically as well as become better technically.
You can contact Laura directly on 07815 947209 or email on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Victor Callender

Program Coach

As a player, Vic started competing at a young age before moving to Southern California to play full time. He later moved to play collegiate tennis in Texas, where he won a national doubles title.

As a coach, Vic holds the LTA level 3 coaching qualification, looking to do his level 4 in the near future.

He has experience in managing and coaching on large tennis programmes and enjoys coaching players from beginners through to performance juniors and ITF seniors

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.        07889 858998

 

Sunny Dimic

Program Coach

Sunny comes to the club with great experience in teaching adults and juniors of all ages and abilities. He has previously managed several prestigious clubs in London and the surrounding areas.
Sunny is passionate about what he does and gets great satisfaction from watching his students develop and improve the technical, tactical, physical and mental aspects of their tennis. Sunny will employ different teaching techniques to help you improve your game. His teaching philosophy is very simple: “I want you to have enjoyment while playing better tennis”
As a player, Sunny was Top 20 as a junior in ex-Yugoslavia, playing competitively against players such as Goran Ivanisevic.
As a coach, along with his experience in clubs, Sunny coached Filip Krajinovic (highest ATP ranking 26) when visiting hometown during summer holidays.
Sunny holds LTA Level 4 Club Coach Award and Serbian Coaching Qualification.
Sunny will be working on our groups and is available for private lessons, contact on 07498 740 794

 

Slinger Ball Machine

Use the ball machine to get some practice in. Work on specific shots, and hit 100's of balls, and get a great workout if you ramp up the speed! Happy Hitting!

Slinger Ball Machine x 1
£10
HIRE

Unlimited Slinger use
Unlimited use of the Slinger ball machine! Use the ball machine to get some practice in. Work on specific shots, and hit 100's of balls, and get a great workout if you ramp up the speed!
£19.99 per month
HIRE

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Youth Coaching Program

Our Youth/Junior coaching program runs for 50 weeks of the year, through the school holidays, so we have no long breaks which can harm a player’s development. It starts at £55 per month per player for a weekly lesson. If you ever miss a lesson, you can make it up at any other suitable lesson so you never miss out.

We have a tennis curriculum that is based around years of coaching, watching and playing tennis. From this, each month we have a game situation from tennis to base our different groups around. Within these groups we will then work on relevant tactics and techniques to help the player develop their skill game. We feel that this way of working produces well rounded tennis players who enjoy the game, and are in a position to take tennis to the level they want.

All our lessons involve a dynamic warm up, followed by a body & ball and/or racket & ball warm up. We then go into a group teaching point, with individual teaching points given to players once they are out playing. After a few progressions, the lessons finish with some competition involving the lessons teaching point. 

We like to use open play with our coaching, so players will not be lining up waiting to hit balls, but get into rallying and actually playing tennis. This helps our players development and gives them the realism of tennis and helps their movement and receiving skills, which is massive in developing your game. This is true even for our younger players, where we will get them working in pairs, either rallying or feeding (throwing) the ball to each other.

Below is a description of all our youth/junior sessions:

Mini Red (8 and under)

Mini Red is for our players under 8 years old, played on a smaller court (around the size of a service box) with low compression balls. Our Mini Red curriculum works heavily around coordination and movement, so our players are in the best place to develop their tennis. We also start to introduce teaching the base technique of the tennis shots. Our players will start to rally and score in this stage, with the main focus on enjoyment and improving players coordination, movement and reading of the ball.

Mini Orange (8 – 10 Years)

Mini Orange is for our players aged 8 - 10, played on a court around 3/4 the size of a full court. We focus more on the players technical development in this stage, leading on from the teachings through the mini red stage. We will use tennis language to the players, and have them playing full matches while focusing on the process of developing and improving their technique. We introduce the players to the different ball characteristics and tactical intentions

Mini Green (9-11 Years)

Mini Green is for our player aged 9 - 11 years old, played on a full-size tennis court. We continue to focus on, and fine tune, the players technique. We also get the players understanding how to use these techniques in different game situations with different tactical intentions. We continue to use the tennis language to all players, and introduce decision making around the players tactical intentions.

Junior Development Squads (11 years and over)

Junior Development Squads (11 years and over)For our players aged over 11, they now use the regular tennis balls on a full-size court. We now build on all the technical and tactical knowledge and skills the players have developed through the mini tennis stages. With this continual development the players will explore different game styles and start to find their own style of play. Players will compete internally within their group and the club. and will start to be encouraged to compete externally.

Junior Competition Squads (14 years and over)

Our Competition squads are for our players who wish to take their tennis more seriously. We continue to develop the players technique and tactical knowledge, and also focus on players decision making and game style, for them to put into matches when they compete. The players are more focused on match play and competing, which is incorporated with these sessions. Players are expected to be competing in LTA competition and coach support will be given to all players for this

Sign up to any of our groups by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and remember you have to be a member of Sheen Lawn Tennis and Squash Club to take part in any coaching

School Holiday Tennis Camps

Our popular tennis camps run on most days of the school holidays.

Please contact us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like any more information

10 years old and under Tennis Camp

Weekdays 9am - 11:30
Recommended for ages 5 to 10

Each day will have a teaching theme and players will learn and compete in a fun and social environment.
They will develop all aspects of tennis including technical, tactical, physical and mental skills.
Players will be separated into their age/level on the day

11 years old and over Tennis Camp

Weekdays 12 - 2:30
Recommended for ages 11 to 16

This camp is aimed at players from 11-16 years old. Each day we will have a tactical theme and work on the players technique to play the game. We will develop all the areas of the players game, through open drills, practices, games and competition. Players will be split into ages/standard on the day.

Adult Coaching Program

We have an adult program with something for everyone, so you can start your tennis journey with us, come back to tennis, improve your game, join team training or just get fit with us.

Below are descriptions of all our sessions currently running.

Drills & Skills

This is a group session like no other! We concentrate on one element of the game and work on the progressions around it.

It’s high intensity with lots of repetition.

Suitable for all levels of play.

Introduction to doubles

Learn the Basics of doubles play.

These sessions will work on tactical play around court positioning and movement.

This will be supported with technical coaching to implement the tactic.

Club Coaching

This group is for players who want to perform better in Club Sessions and mix ins.

We work around doubles tactics and teach the technical side to help you achieve those tactics.

You must be able to hold a rally to take part in this group.

Ladies Coaching

Coaching aimed at ladies who are looking to take the next step and join the club teams.

These sessions cover doubles themes, positions and tactical play to put you in a great position to start playing for the club.

Cardio Tennis

Get fit on a tennis court! Improve your fitness through fast paced drills to music.

Tennis ability not important!